The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
INCONSISTENCY DENIED.
GLADSTONE SPEAKS TO 1000 PEO-
PIE AT DERBY.

ceived an address from the Irish residents
of Nottingham to-day. In replying to the
address Mr.. Gladstone expressed the con-
viction that the discord between Catholics
and Protestants would cease once home rule
was established in Ireland.
Mr. Gladstone addressed an audience of
1900 persons in the drill hall at Derby to-
day. He was supported by Sir William
Vernon Harcourt and. Baron Wolverton.
The crowd climbed to the girders of the
roof. When the orchestra played "God
from parts of the hall. The air of
the song Joey and jesse" which refers
to MeSsrs. Joseph Chamberlain and Jesse
Ceilings, was also played and loudly
groaned. Mr.. Gladstone said their oppo-
nents were growing weaker, while their own
forces were becoming stronger. He wasac-
cused of cooperating with those whom he
once denounced as marching with raplne
and murder towards the disintegration of
the empire. All the objections then pre-
sented had passed away. He did not believe
that any Irish member of Parliament now
contemplated or desired ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
the empire. They wanted union of hearts,
not union on parchment and paper.
INCONSISTENCY DENIED.
Why, he asked should he be accused of
gross inconsistency because he allied himself
with Mr. Parnell and the Irish party, who
were acting on lines of moderation which
assuredly would in the end secure home
rule. He fatty denied that his course was
inconsistent. When told that he had passed
coercion measures he could only say that a
measure such as was contested at the last
session of Parliament had never been passed
while he was in office. That measure was not
aimed at the suppression of crime so much
as at the liberty of the press and
the right of public meeting, as its applica-
ton proved. Lawful meetings had been
prevented. The act had been used in such
a manner as to painfully and fiagrantly
show that its provisions were different from
those of any act previously passed. 1t was
more Subtle and piercing and fatal to the
liberty of the people than any bill hitherto
passed. 1t was enrolled as per-
manent piece of legislation as much
as the reform bill and the bill of
rights. Coercion had utterly failed. In
stead of trying to drive the disease inward
he believed the Liberals had found plan
which would, by their Home Rule scheme,
solve the long formidable problem. 1t was
said that Ireland consisted of two nations.
Italy was once in the same condition, but
the parties there coalesced and formed one
united kingdom. Why should not Ireland
do the same.
ULSTER MISUNDERSTANDS.
Mr. Gladstone said he believed that the
people of Ulster were simply laboring under
a misunderstanding. They doubtless wanted
assurance that connection between Ireland
and England would be maintained. 1t was
an utter mistake to suppose that any action
of the Liberal party would have any other
result He believed that a satisfactory ar
rangement could be made by which Ulster
would be united with the rest of Ireland,
and that in the end all would give willing
obedience to the Queen.
On leaving the hall Mr. Gladstone was
heartily cheered.
the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland on
account of i'll health, has been assured by
his physicians that he can now safely re-
sumo political life.
A CONSERVATIVE RESIGNS.
Mr.. Evlyn, Conservative, has resigned
his seat as member of Parliament for Dept
ford He declares in his letter of resigna-
ton that he cannot support the Irish policy
of the government. 1.-The government"
he says, ''are inficting on Ireland
under the name of law system
of one-sided tyranny. 1t is not govern
ment but confession of inability. If we
let Ireland govern herself"
Lord Randolph Churchill in a speech at
Sunderland to-day denounced as immoral
Mr.. Gladstones proffer to make disestab-
lishment of the church in Wales q plank of
the Liberal platform in return for the sup
port of his Irish scheme.
ONE VOTE PER HEAD.
Mr.. Churchill said at Sunderland to-day
that he was willing to support the principle
that one man should have only one vote,
unless the Conservative party opposed that
principle, a contingency unlikely to occur.
Mr.. Gladstone, he said. expressed his ideas on
all subjects in the vaguest manner. He
spoke of abolishing entail. If he meant
simply reference to the lives of children yet
unborn, he (Mr. ChurchilD agreed with
him, as did, probably, a majority of the
members of Parliament, but he was opposed
to a mere radical innovation. He thought
the protection question was subject for
meditation. The main reason why he
himself had not joined in the argument was
that he believed that only low
prices for the necessaries of life were com
patible with stability of democratic con-
stitution. He favored bold legislation in
the direction of temperance, not on moral,
but on economical grounds. He was
strongly opposed TO the disestablishment of
the church either in England, Scotland or
w dleS. NOJilliS DuO
evil and dissolution could possibly
result from the appropriation of
religious principles for secular purposes
Mr.. Gladstone was silent on the greatest of
all domestic qnestions-guestions of reform
and retrenchment in the finance depart
ment and of public education. He lord
Churchill advocated the cause of temper
ance and free education as conservative
measures. Unlike the Gladstonians, the
Unlonists were to deal with these questions
Immediately. He had yet to learn how a
majority of 100, when led by in
telligence and courage, could be
successfully resisted by a disorganized and
vicious minority. Even if Mr.. Gladstone
succeeded in forcing dissolution and obtain
ing majority, the home rule proposals
would be fought to the last grip, even to
the abolition of the House of Lords thus
certainly postponing these vital reforms
until at least 1891.
The registration bill foreshadowed at the
Nottingham conference is really reform
bill. granting manhood suffrage, abolishing
revising barristers and political agents, etc.
Mr.. Gladstone is the author OF the measure.
EvIcTIoNs STILL IN PROGRESS.
DUBLIN, Oct 20.-Three tenants on the
estate of Lord Clanricarde have been
evicted. One of the tenants, named Patrick
Campbell, strenuously resisted the officers,
and during the melee his daughter Margaret
was struck on the head with a crowbar and
severely injured. Eight women and two
men were arrested
A number of eiectment notices against